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Darryl Wimberley

    Darryl Wimberley ha coltivato una voce distinta esplorando l'intersezione tra letteratura e cinema. Il suo approccio narrativo è caratterizzato da una prospettiva originale e uno stile accattivante che attira i lettori nelle sue storie. Cerca continuamente modi innovativi per riflettere l'esperienza umana attraverso i suoi sforzi artistici. Il lavoro di Wimberley dimostra una dedizione alla profondità e al dettaglio meticoloso.

    Kaleidoscope: Kriminalroman
    Kaleidoscope
    The King of Colored Town
    • The King of Colored Town

      • 353pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction (2007) There are good people and bad on both sides of the tracks that divide Laureate from 'Colored Town'. Our instruction in that hard truth comes as we follow two African-American teens, Cilla Handsom and Joe Billy King, as they endure the backlash resulting from the integration of their segregated school with the all-white school run by Lafayette County's all-white school board. The issue of the education of Laureate's children will expose hatreds on both sides of the color divide. Cilla will emerge from her ordeal carrying scars and grace to become a widely traveled classical musician. Joe Billy will be found hanging from the bars of his cell in a Florida penitentiary. Their moving, intertwined dramas put courage, cowardice, loyalty and betrayal side by side in an eloquent, evocative narrative where the demons and angels of a time and place are portrayed in black and white.

      The King of Colored Town
    • Kaleidoscope

      • 267pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      Jack Romaine's addiction to speakeasies and cards has landed him in a tight spot-one which he can't use his good looks to get out of. With debts to dangerous men piling up, he becomes an unwilling recruit for a Cincinnati gangster needing an expendable tool to recover his stolen cash and railroad bonds. Unfortunately, Jack is not the only man on the trail of the stolen money-he is in competition with a sadistic killer who relishes the carnage he leaves in his wake. The trail leads south to Kaleidoscope; a 'beddy' for freaks during the months when carnival is out-of-season. In this malformed community peopled by dwarfs and giants, legless women and women with three breasts, Siamese twins and sword-swallowers, Jack is very much the odd man out. Convincing these folk of his sincerity and amiability while surreptitiously trying to find out what happened to the stolen cash is going to take all his ingenuity-and will have results he could never have anticipated...

      Kaleidoscope
    • Cincinnati zur Prohibitionszeit: Wegen seiner Vorliebe für illegalen Schnaps und Glücksspiel sitzt Jack Romaine ziemlich in der Klemme und da hilft ihm auch sein gutes Aussehen nichts. Er schuldet ein paar gefährlichen Zeitgenossen eine Menge Geld. Das nutzt ein Gangsterboss aus und zwingt Jack, für ihn zu arbeiten. Er soll ihm helfen, veruntreutes Geld und Wertpapiere wiederzubeschaffen. Allerdings ist nicht nur Jack hinter der Beute her. Sein Konkurrent ist ein sadistischer Mörder, der eine blutige Spur hinter sich herzieht. Die Fährte führt Richtung Süden nach Kaleidoscope; einem Winterquartier für Schausteller und Freaks. In dieser ungewöhnlichen Gemeinschaft von Kleinwüchsigen und Riesen, Frauen ohne Unterleib oder mit drei Brüsten, siamesischen Zwillingen und Schwertschluckern ist Jack ein Außenseiter. Er muss all seinen Einfallsreichtum aufbieten, um diese Menschen von seiner Aufrichtigkeit und seinen guten Absichten zu überzeugen, während er heimlich versucht, etwas über das verschwundene Geld herauszubekommen. Doch seine Suche hat für ihn Folgen, die er niemals hätte erahnen können …

      Kaleidoscope: Kriminalroman